Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I'm the 'e' in mathematics. Overlooked and forgotten, unless it is known well JKstudied closely. Neither is likely.” — Thalia Skibo Copy Share Image
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be… — Robert Recorde Copy Share Image
“Origin of the Logical. Where has logic originated in men’s heads? Undoubtedly out of the illogical, the domain of which must originally… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects;… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the… — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
“EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think. NW: Yes, but I did… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mathematics does furnish the power for deliberate thought and accurate statement, and to speak the truth is one of the most social… — S.T. Dutton Copy Share Image
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“It’d be quite absurd to equate a math equation with love. But that is exactly what I’ve done. I’m giving a four-hour… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I'm not sure how this happened, but somehow mathematics is getting politicized. We're trying to take the politics out and put the… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
“A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Alain Chenciner and Richard Montgomery, “A remarkable periodic solution of the three-body problem in the case of equal masses,” Annals of Mathematics, 152 (2000), 881–901.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
OK think of a number. Add 12 to the number. Subtract 2. Divide that number by 5. Add 20. Did you get 12? Neither did I. — Paige Carter Copy Share Image
Relationships were meant only for two people; unfortunately for some of us, math is not our favorite subject. — London Mond Copy Share Image
“This is not mathematics, it is theology. (On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.)” — Paul Gordan Copy Share Image
A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James Copy Share Image
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“People often think computers are all about numbers, but they’re not. Computers are all about logic.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
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